{"id":648975,"date":"2026-11-02T18:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648975\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T18:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:12:17","slug":"god-street-wine-honor-wetlands-on-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648975\/","title":{"rendered":"God Street Wine Honor Wetlands on Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend, God Street Wine<\/a> used Halloween weekend to honor New York\u2019s famed Wetlands at Woodstock, NY\u2019s Bearsville Theater just over 25 years after the venue shuttered. The reactivated group also used the shows to celebrate the release of their new studio album The Method, performing 10 of the LP\u2019s 11 tracks between the two shows at Bearsville. The only selection they didn\u2019t play in Woodstock, \u201cRabbit Ears,\u201d was one of six cuts from The Method they ran through during the album\u2019s release party at New York\u2019s The Gramercy Theatre on Friday.<\/p>\n

In order to recreate the spirit of Wetlands, the band decorated the space with classic posters, banners and other paraphernalia from the Tribeca club\u2019s heyday. Former Wetlands owner Peter Shapiro, who currently oversees the Bearsville Theater\u2019s musical offerings, also lent the theater the original Wetlands barstool he keeps in his office for Live From Relix video sessions. The weekend\u2019s house music also nodded to the revered spot by hosting selections from Blues Traveler\u2019s first two albums and Gov\u2019t Mule\u2019s Dose.<\/p>\n

Each night also featured a special opening act with deep ties to Wetlands. On Halloween proper, Ominous Seapods, who often supported God Street Wine on the road in the \u201990s, came together for a rare show to kick of the night. During God Street Wine\u2019s first set, Ominous Seapods guitarist Max Verna, who opened one of GSW\u2019s final shows at Wetlands before parting ways in 1999 with the bluegrass combo Phineas Gage, returned to the stage to play guitar and banjo on \u201c6:15,\u201d \u201cStranger,\u201d \u201cDiana\u201d and the band\u2019s first take on the Hot Rize\u2019s \u201cNellie Kane,\u201d which has long entered the jamband repertoire thanks to Phish\u2019s spin on the tune. Josh Himmelsbach also added mandolin to \u201cNellie Kane\u201d and returned during God Street Wine\u2019s second set for \u201cHellfire,\u201d \u201cNightbird\u201d and \u201cBorderline,\u201d as well as another Wetlands-approved cover, Jerry Garcia\u2019s \u201cSugaree,\u201d which the band had only played one previous time in September of 2025.<\/p>\n

The next day, Spin Doctors frontman Chris Barron, a fellow Wetlands alum, supplied support duties and returned to the stage at the end of God Street Wine\u2019s first set to lead the group through two cover debuts. First, he joined in for his band\u2019s signature mega-hit \u201cTwo Princes\u201d and then he helped them close the set with a choice take on Prince\u2019s \u201cPurple Rain.\u201d Adding to the Wetlands vibe, Deep Banana Blackout guitarist Fuzz Sangiovanni, who came through the ranks at the club, made a surprise appearance on \u201cGoodnight \u00a0Gretchen\u201d during God Street Wine\u2019s first set and \u201cWall\u201d and \u201cPeanut Butter Jar\u201d during the second half of the night. Another familiar face from the \u201990s scene and close God Street Wine friend, saxophonist Craig Dreyer also augmented the group on \u201cWater,\u201d \u201cPurple Rain,\u201d \u201cThis Is Fine, Fido\u201d and \u201cFeel the Pressure\u201d at various points throughout the event.<\/p>\n

In addition to a new album, God Street Wine have also put together<\/a> The Method Book, which discusses the unique process they employed to create the LP in detail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the weekend, God Street Wine used Halloween weekend to honor New York\u2019s famed Wetlands at Woodstock, NY\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-648975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}